Occurrence patterns of crop‐foraging sika deer distribution in an agriculture–forest landscape revealed by nitrogen stable isotopes

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 11; no. 21; pp. 15303 - 15311
• Main Authors: Hata, Ayaka, Nakashita, Rumiko, Fukasawa, Keita, Minami, Masato, Fukue, Yuko, Higuchi, Naoko, Uno, Hikaru, Nakajima, Yasuhiro, Saeki, Midori, Kozakai, Chinatsu, Takada, Mayura B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: agricultural crops; Agriculture; Animal populations; Anthropogenic factors; Cervus nippon; Collagen; Crop fields; Crop production; Crops; Deer; Distribution patterns; Evaluation; Females; Fisheries; Food; Food consumption; Foraging behavior; Grasses; incidence function model; Isotopes; large ungulate; Nitrogen; nitrogen stable isotopes; Spatial distribution; Spring; Stable isotopes; Wildlife; Winter; Zonation; Japan; nitrogen stable isotopes; large ungulate; incidence function model; agricultural crops; spatial distribution; Cervus nippon

Conflicts arising from the consumption of anthropogenic foods by wildlife are increasing worldwide. Conventional tools for evaluating the spatial distribution pattern of large terrestrial mammals that consume anthropogenic foods have various limitations, despite their importance in management to mit...